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Caption | A few descriptive words providing readers with information regarding a figure. |
Clip art | A collection of media files available to insert in Microsoft Office documents that can include illustrations |
Clip Organizer | A tool supplied within Microsoft Office that collects and stores clip art |
Compress | Reduces the size of an object. |
Crop | The process of trimming the horizontal or vertical edges of a picture to get rid of unwanted areas. |
Drop cap | A large initial letter that drops down two or more lines at the beginning of a paragraph to indicate that a new block of information is beginning and to give interest to newsletters or magazine articles. |
Embedded object | A picture or other object inserted into a document that becomes part of the document. Compare to linked object. |
Floating object | An image or other object positioned precisely on the page |
Inline object | An image or other object that moves along with the text that surrounds it. Compare to floating object. |
Linked object | A picture or other object inserted into a document by creating a connection between the document and picture file but not combining them in the same file. Compare to embedded object. |
Pull quote | A sentence or other text displayed within a box on the page for emphasis and for ease of movement; often used along with drop caps in newsletters |
Resetting | Discards all the formatting changes that you made to a picture |
Scale | The process of increasing or decreasing an original picture’s height and width by the same percentage. |
Screen Clippings | An image capture of only a part of your computer screen that you have selected. |
Screenshot | An image capture of the entire current display on your computer screen. |
Shapes | Figures such as lines |
Smart Art graphics | Graphical illustrations available within Word from a list of various categories |
Text box | An invisible |
WordArt | A feature within Microsoft Word that creates decorative effects with a string of text. |
Drawing Canvax | A frame-like boundary that keeps multiple drawing objects together. |